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whom I know not whence they
be?
12
So David’s young men turned their way, and went again,
and came and told him all those sayings.
13
And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man
his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there
went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
14
But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers
out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.
15
But the men
were
very good
unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with
them, when we were in the fields:
16
They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while
we were with them keeping the sheep.
17
Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for
evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he
is such
a son of Belial,
that
a man
cannot speak to him.
18
Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five
sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched
corn,
and an hundred clusters of raisins, and
two hundred cakes of figs, and laid
them
on asses.
19
And she said unto her servants, Go on before
me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
20
And it was
so, as
she rode on
the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down
against her; and she met them.
21
Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this
fellow
hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that
pertained
unto him: and he hath
requited me evil for good.
22
So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all
that
pertain
to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
23
And when Abigail saw
David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to
the ground,
24
And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord,
upon
me
let this
iniquity
be:
and
let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
25
Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial,
even
Nabal: for as his name
is,
so
is
he;
Nabal
is
his name, and folly
is
with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord,
whom thou didst send.
26
Now therefore, my lord,
as
the L
ORD
liveth, and
as
thy soul liveth, seeing
the L
ORD
hath withholden thee from coming to
shed
blood, and from avenging thyself with thine
own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
27
And now this
blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men
that follow my lord.
28
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the L
ORD
will certainly
make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the L
ORD
, and evil hath not been
found in thee
all
thy days.
29
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul
of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the L
ORD
thy God; and the souls of thine enemies,
them shall he sling out,
as out
of the middle of a sling.
30
And it shall come to pass, when the L
ORD
shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall
have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
31
That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart
unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but
when the L
ORD
shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
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